
We have reached day thirty two. This was originally a 30 day ‘stay at home’ order. May 3rd is the new end date I believe. I am not holding my breath on this ending then, but, you never know. Stranger things have happened.
The world is certainly a different place right now. To say practically everything is surreal is an understatement. So many stores have closed temporarily (I hope the mom and pop stores will recover), people you meet on the street, well, it’s just… everyone is acting differently. We are walking out of our way on the road or sidewalk as to not commit a felony offense of approaching someone less then six feet from us. Ordering food from a fast food or restaurant has taken on a new approach. Almost every seasonal event to this point has been canceled, or at best, delayed. Church services online, that is probably the worse. The online technology is fairly new in the scheme of things, something you use if you are sick, or out of town. Not because the doors to the church building aren’t even open. Yes, I know the building is not the church, the people are. But I am ready to be with fellow believers again. Hopefully that day will be soon. We can know with full assurance when followers of Christ get to Heaven, there will be no more fear, no more illness, it will be perfect. The worship leader God assigns to lead songs probably won’t even use a big screen, it will all be perfect. Until perfection arrives, I will settle for normalcy, and a chance to swim in America again.
14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many [a]mansions; if it were not so, [b]I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:1-6 NKJV